Plus slowing down when you need to, and how I kept the wheels on my Obsidian monthly log — Today I’ll be talking about — How it’s okay to slow down when you need to, and do things differently for a while How a packet of Cheetos in a sarcophagus taught me that not everything in our productivity systems has to make sense to anyone else but us How…

Slow down, just for a minute, and focus on the spaces between — Recently I helped a blind person I’ve never met, go from freezing to comfortable. Be My Eyes is a free service for people with visual impairments, connecting volunteers with people who need help interpreting visual cues. …

Plus sketchnoting, 3 Obsidian plugins I’ve stopped using, and the monthly log experiment continues — Today I’ll be talking about — Sketchnoting Anti-Time Management, and how it can help with overwhelm My monthly log experiment (it’s going well) 3 Obsidian plugins I’ve stopped using Productivity Inspiration

It’s time to craft a future-proof workflow — The connection between control of our notes and control of our money (and other important things) lit up my brain yesterday. When I got up this morning, it was bubbling away and wouldn’t let me rest until I’d written it down. This is what I wrote on the pkm.social instance…

Also: pkm.social on Mastodon, a MASSIVE Obsidian tutorial, and navigating long-form notes in iA Writer — Today I’ll be talking about — Where the cool geeks hang these days: pkm.social on Mastodon How to flood the dark playground of procrastination with glorious light A cool 2023 calendar poster for year-planning Navigating long-form notes in iA Writer Productivity Inspiration The pkm.social Mastodon instance is now open

Some have free alternatives, but free isn’t always better — What is Setapp, and why would any self-respecting, open source supporter want to use it? Especially one prone to shiny app induced procrastination? Setapp is one monthly subscription for 200+ Mac apps of varying usefulness and quality. This open source supporter/shiny app sucker uses it because seven of them on…

Plus: Full-screen Mac clock screensavers, and the value of being able to access your vault via more than one app — Thought of the week: The last time you wrote a note in your app of choice, was your attention more on the topic of your note, or on the interface of the app itself? …

The low-tech guide to creating clickable, shareable links to ANY file on your computer — I woke up this morning to the news that one of my all-time favourites has come to Setapp. Big, big smiles here, folks! If you’re a Mac user who’s been on the fence about taking on a Setapp subscription, Hookmark could be the app that makes the choice an easy…